When I was eleven, I was introduced to my first Isaac Asimov book (The End Of Eternity). Since then, I’ve been a big fan of Science Fiction and along with that seemed to come an interest in UFOs. For the past five years I’ve been running a UFO website: http://www.visitations.com
Unfortunately, I am not well liked amongst many of my fellow UFOers because I take a very skeptical approach to the topic. Most folks seem to get upset when I ask for proof of their claims. Like many religious zealots, UFOers expect me to simply believe them based upon what they think they saw or experienced.
I have found that most UFOers do not believe in God because they’ve seen no evidence for one — yet they eagerly accept unprovable claims of alien abductions. Christians, in turn, are ready to accept stories about God and outrageous Biblical tales without any real proof. It’s interesting how these two groups mock each other when both are skating on the same “thin intellectual ice”.
What I find fascinating about the UFO topic is how people are willing to throw away logic and reason in favor of some ridiculous story. Let’s take for instance the subject of Alien Anal Probing. I mean, what’s up with that?! Are we seriously supposed to think that highly advanced life forms travel all the way across the galaxy in order to examine that particular orifice? I find it interesting how this was a popular form of examination for a few years, but you don’t hear much about it any more. Have the little green men found out all they can with the Anal Probe? What sinister things await future victims of abduction?
Christians also have their stories about beings from above testing them in various ways. How about when God told Abraham to kill his son Isaac, in order to test his loyalty? In the end, God said “Just kidding!” and let the boy live. Can you imagine the reactions of the townsfolk when Abraham came home and told this story?
Most alien abduction stories (and believe me, I’ve heard hundreds) are simply dreams where creatures bathed in bright lights come to visit and share positive loving messages. In religious circles, people would call them angels, but UFOers prefer to think of them as aliens. Angels? Aliens? Is there really any difference? Human irrationality can take many forms. Whether it’s angels from heaven or aliens from “the heavens”, the minds that come up with this nonsense seem to be pretty much the same.
Now if only we could get people to be as skeptical of religious claims as they are about UFO stories...
Hello. My name is Angela Christine Byers (yes, my mother actually named me “Angel of Christ”), and I am an atheist.
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